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Welcome, Christian Øland! We are delighted to begin our work for the young versatile Danish conductor, who took up two new chief positions this season.

CERHA 100

In 2026, the music world will celebrate the 100th birthday of Friedrich Cerha and honour the composer, who died in 2023, with publications, concerts and even a world premiere; a special stamp will also be issued to mark the occasion.

On 22, 23 and 24 January, Daishin Kashimoto will perform Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic under Lahav Shani.

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Welcome, Christian Øland! We are delighted to begin our work for the young versatile Danish conductor, who took up two new chief positions this season.

CERHA 100

On 22, 23 and 24 January, Daishin Kashimoto will perform Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic under Lahav Shani.

NEW WITH US

We are delighted to announce our collaboration with conductor Simone Menezes, who builds bridges between different musical traditions and artistic disciplines with musical rigour and a discerning curatorial eye.

As part of a multimedia musical theatre production by Danish star author Olga Ravn, cellist and composer Josefine Opsahl will premiere her cello concerto HANDS with the Copenhagen Phil on 23 January.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On 18 January, Christoph Prégardien will celebrate his 70th birthday with a special recital at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Morton Feldmann's birth, the JACK Quartet, together with pianist Florence Millet, will perform his late masterpiece Piano and String Quartet on 16 January in Wuppertal and on 31 January in Tübingen.

At the Ultraschall Berlin festival, Ilya Gringolts will perform Kurtág's Kafka Fragments together with Johanna Vargas on January 15, and he will interpret a violin concerto by Mirela Ivičević in the closing concert on January 18 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Giedrė Šlekytė.

The German magazine Focus devoted an extensive portrait to Jacob Mühlrad on the occasion of his highly acclaimed musical setting for the venerable Nobel Banquet.

NEW WITH US

Welcome Julian Steckel! We start our collaboration with the exceptional cellist, who launched his impressive international career in 2010 as winner of the ARD International Music Competition, now performing with renowned orchestras and chamber music partners worldwide.

NEW RECORDINGS

Anton Gerzenberg's debut CD, Ravel Reflections, was launched on 5 December on the Prospero label.

Now available to stream in full length: Toshio Howokawa's new opera Natasha premiered in August at the New National Theatre in Tokyo under the baton of Kazushi Ono and was enthusiastically received.

NEW WITH US

We are delighted to be working with the Kuss Quartet, which has been setting new standards for many years with its sophisticated conceptual programming.

NEW RECORDINGS

Anssi Karttunen has recorded Betsy Jolas' complete works for cello and piano together with Nicolas Hodges – the double album has now been released on the bastille musique label.

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NEW RECORDINGS

Ilya Gringolts' recording of Bach's sonatas for violin and harpsichord with Francesco Corti has now been released by Arcana as his label debut and was promptly awarded the Diapason d'or.

NEW RECORDINGS

Recorded by the Ensemble Ascolta, the album Sounds, Archaeologies, now released on the KAIROS label, brings together compositions by Isabel Mundry that understand listening as an active, participatory process.

NEW RECORDINGS

Under the baton of Titus Engel, the WDR Symphony Orchestra recorded Betsy Jolas' Musique d'hiver – the album has now been awarded the German Record Critics' Prize.

IN CONVERSATION

On the occasion of the new recording of Stockhausen's epochal piano work Mantra, Götz Schumacher talks in an interview about the intensive relationship that has connected the GrauSchumacher Piano Duo with the work since its beginnings.

Alejo Pérez is appointed principal conductor of the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, where he will give his inaugural concert in May 2026.

ON OUR BEHALF

Now available as a podcast: For the series Menschen und ihre Musik (People and Their Music), Karsten Witt spoke with hr2 radio presenter Niels Kaiser in autumn 2025 about his unusual career as a music manager and about the music that has particularly moved and accompanied him along the way.

Titus Engel is appointed Conductor in Residence at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

NEW RECORDINGS

A recording of Jacob Mühlrad's clarinet concerto SEMA with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martin Fröst and featuring soloist Magnus Holmander was released in November 2025 on the Warner Classics label.

Gringolts Quartet © Tomasz Trzebiatowski

IN CONVERSATION

Following the performance of all six Mozart string quintets at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Ilya Gringolts explained to us what attracts him to historical instruments and why the Gringolts Quartet will continue to play on gut strings more frequently in the future.

Johannes Klumpp and the Heidelberger Sinfoniker are awarded the OPUS KLASSIK for their complete recording of all Haydn symphonies, completed in autumn 2024. Our congratulations!

IN CONVERSATION

In an interview between her spring engagements in Lyon and Montreal, Jenny Daviet surprises us with her unexpected approach to roles and works and reveals her dreams for the future.

In June 2025, Philippe Manoury's 'Thinkspiel' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, based on Karl Kraus' monumental drama The Last Days of Mankind, premiered at the Cologne Opera under the direction of Peter Rundel and received enthusiastic reviews.

Toshio Hosokawa has received the prestigious BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the "extraordinary reach of his music, which tends a bridge between the Japanese tradition and contemporary Western aesthetics", according to the jury.

ON OUR BEHALF

Variations on a theme: On the occasion of kwmm's 20th anniversary, filmmaker Uli Aumüller listened in on us with his camera and created a portrait of the company from 18 conversations about our work.

NEW RECORDINGS

Out now: Carlotta Dalia's album Segovia, a tribute to the pioneer of classical guitar playing and recorded on his own historical guitar.

IN CONVERSATION

In April and May 2025, the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar presented Mieczysław Weinberg's opera The Passenger in a new production staged by Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito under the musical direction of Roland Kluttig. We spoke to the conductor about his special relationship with Soviet music and the significance of Weinberg's opera for the memory of Nazi atrocities.

We congratulate Titus Engel on winning the Swiss Music Prize 2025.

NEW WITH US

Welcome, Christian Øland! We are delighted to begin our work for the young versatile Danish conductor, who took up two new chief positions this season.

CERHA 100

On 22, 23 and 24 January, Daishin Kashimoto will perform Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic under Lahav Shani.

EVENTS

THU 15.01.

Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

FRI 16.01.

JACK Quartet: Sculpture Park Waldfrieden

Johannes Maria Staud: Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

Philippe Manoury: Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

Brad Lubman: Radialsystem, Berlin

Christian Øland: Theater Magdeburg | Concert in Memory of the Destruction of the City of Magdeburg

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Radialsystem, Berlin

SAT 17.01.

Ryoko Aoki: Minato City Center for Traditional Culture, Tokyo

Michael Wendeberg: Radialsystem, Berlin

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

Bas Wiegers: Concert- en Congresgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam

JACK Quartet: WP of Pascal Dusapin's String Quartet No. 8

SUN 18.01.

Christoph Prégardien: Konzerthaus Dortmund

Antje Weithaas: Schloss Bad Iburg

Sivan Eldar: Stadtcasino, Basel

Philippe Manoury: Konzerthaus Freiburg

Ilya Gringolts: Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin

TUE 20.01.

Michael Wendeberg: Frankfurt Opera

THU 22.01.

Johannes Klumpp: Bürgerhaus Bad Berleburg

Christoph Prégardien: Casals Forum, Kronberg Academy

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

Johannes Maria Staud: Congress Innsbruck

FRI 23.01.

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Bas Wiegers: Prinzregententheater Munich

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

JACK Quartet: Sculpture Park Waldfrieden

Johannes Maria Staud: Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

Philippe Manoury: Opéra Théâtre de Saint-Étienne

Philippe Manoury: Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle, Stuttgart

Brad Lubman: Radialsystem, Berlin

Christian Øland: Theater Magdeburg | Concert in Memory of the Destruction of the City of Magdeburg

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo: Radialsystem, Berlin

Ryoko Aoki: Minato City Center for Traditional Culture, Tokyo

Michael Wendeberg: Radialsystem, Berlin

Isabel Mundry: Zionskirche Bielefeld

Bas Wiegers: Concert- en Congresgebouw de Doelen Rotterdam

JACK Quartet: WP of Pascal Dusapin's String Quartet No. 8

Christoph Prégardien: Konzerthaus Dortmund

Antje Weithaas: Schloss Bad Iburg

Sivan Eldar: Stadtcasino, Basel

Philippe Manoury: Konzerthaus Freiburg

Ilya Gringolts: Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin

Michael Wendeberg: Frankfurt Opera

Johannes Klumpp: Bürgerhaus Bad Berleburg

Christoph Prégardien: Casals Forum, Kronberg Academy

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

Johannes Maria Staud: Congress Innsbruck

Ilya Gringolts & Gringolts Quartet: Morton Feldman Centenary at Mizmorim Festival

Antje Weithaas: Radio Hall of NRK, Oslo

Philippe Manoury: Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris

Ilya Gringolts: SRF Studio Basel

Bas Wiegers: Konzerthaus Ravensburg

Johannes Maria Staud: Congress Innsbruck

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

Daishin Kashimoto: Philharmonie Berlin

Carlotta Dalia: St Andrew’s Church

Olli Mustonen: De Bijloke Muziekcentrum Gent

Christian Øland: Theater Magdeburg | Philharmonic Concert

Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel

Jeroen Berwaerts: Koganei Miyaji Gakki

Tito Ceccherini: Opéra National de Bordeaux

Holly Hyun Choe: Batiment des Forces Motrices (BFM), Geneva

Ryoko Aoki: Kazen Hall, Tokyo

Jacob Mühlrad: Winnipeg New Music Festival

Tito Ceccherini: Opéra National de Bordeaux

Julian Steckel: Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam

Jacob Mühlrad: Winnipeg New Music Festival